Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 80 63
Rank change year-on-year -46 -17 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,399 1,538 3,644
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.56% 3.63% 3.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 3.91% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 963 1,068 2,755
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,035 39,288 81,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.86% 92.85% 85.64%
Number of salaries quoted 41,557 22,685 59,435
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 28 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -39 1,272 £77,500 +3.33% 630
London +6 680 £90,000 +5.88% 306
Work from Home -24 607 £70,000 -2.77% 403
UK excluding London -109 597 £67,500 -3.57% 427
North of England -27 274 £69,310 -3.72% 123
North West -27 130 £70,000 -3.45% 84
South East -116 128 £72,500 +7.41% 141
Yorkshire -50 97 £69,310 -4.06% 18
Midlands -71 58 £67,500 +3.85% 52
South West -95 57 £60,000 -12.44% 48
North East -9 47 £65,000 +30.00% 21
East of England -16 42 £60,100 +4.52% 24
West Midlands -42 35 £72,500 +3.57% 25
Scotland -79 31 £60,000 -20.00% 14
East Midlands -59 22 £67,000 +3.08% 27
Wales -32 9 £53,171 -20.64% 17
Northern Ireland -37 7 £62,500 +13.64% 12
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.00%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.29%) Confluence
3 17 (1.22%) Apache
4 16 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (1.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 14 (1.00%) IIS
6 14 (1.00%) JBoss
7 13 (0.93%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.64%) CMS
8 9 (0.64%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.29%) Appian
10 4 (0.29%) Camunda
10 4 (0.29%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 3 (0.21%) nginx
11 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (0.93%) MS Visio
2 11 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.50%) Maya
4 6 (0.43%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.071%) Actimize
6 1 (0.071%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.071%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.071%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.071%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.071%) Quorum
6 1 (0.071%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.071%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.071%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 760 (54.32%) AWS
2 578 (41.32%) Azure
3 301 (21.52%) GCP
4 240 (17.16%) Serverless
5 150 (10.72%) SaaS
6 120 (8.58%) AWS Lambda
7 118 (8.43%) Azure DevOps
8 114 (8.15%) GitHub
9 108 (7.72%) Amazon S3
10 85 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
11 79 (5.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 73 (5.22%) Amazon SQS
13 68 (4.86%) Amazon ECS
14 59 (4.22%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (3.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 53 (3.79%) Azure Service Bus
17 47 (3.36%) OpenShift
18 45 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
19 43 (3.07%) Datadog
20 40 (2.86%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.65%) Broadband
2 13 (0.93%) HTTP
2 13 (0.93%) Network Security
3 9 (0.64%) DNS
4 7 (0.50%) AMQP
4 7 (0.50%) Firewall
4 7 (0.50%) Internet
5 6 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (0.36%) DHCP
6 5 (0.36%) MQTT
6 5 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 5 (0.36%) VPN
7 4 (0.29%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.29%) LTE
7 4 (0.29%) SNMP
7 4 (0.29%) WAN
8 3 (0.21%) Modbus
9 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
9 2 (0.14%) RFID
9 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (13.58%) NoSQL
2 177 (12.65%) PostgreSQL
3 136 (9.72%) MongoDB
4 101 (7.22%) SQL Server
5 70 (5.00%) MySQL
6 64 (4.57%) DynamoDB
7 62 (4.43%) Relational Database
8 48 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
10 37 (2.64%) Redis
11 36 (2.57%) BigQuery
12 27 (1.93%) Big Data
13 22 (1.57%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
15 16 (1.14%) Pinecone
16 14 (1.00%) Power BI
17 12 (0.86%) DB2
18 11 (0.79%) Data Lake
19 9 (0.64%) Tableau
20 7 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 185 (13.22%) Git
2 126 (9.01%) Jenkins
3 111 (7.93%) GitLab
4 51 (3.65%) JIRA
5 50 (3.57%) TeamCity
6 39 (2.79%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.50%) JUnit
8 32 (2.29%) CircleCI
9 31 (2.22%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.93%) Selenium
11 20 (1.43%) Bitbucket
12 19 (1.36%) Mockito
13 18 (1.29%) Maven
14 15 (1.07%) Claude Code
15 14 (1.00%) SonarQube
16 13 (0.93%) Vite
17 9 (0.64%) JMeter
18 8 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
18 8 (0.57%) Postman
18 8 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 408 (29.16%) Finance
2 331 (23.66%) Social Skills
3 154 (11.01%) Banking
4 110 (7.86%) Public Sector
5 94 (6.72%) Law
6 88 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 69 (4.93%) Retail
8 68 (4.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (3.65%) Telecoms
10 47 (3.36%) Financial Institution
11 37 (2.64%) Back Office
12 22 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (1.43%) Advertising
14 19 (1.36%) Legal
15 18 (1.29%) Billing
16 15 (1.07%) Marketing
17 13 (0.93%) Games
18 12 (0.86%) Front Office
18 12 (0.86%) Manufacturing
19 11 (0.79%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 472 (33.74%) Developer
2 382 (27.31%) Senior
3 275 (19.66%) Software Engineer
4 210 (15.01%) Architect
5 184 (13.15%) Lead
6 121 (8.65%) Senior Developer
7 115 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
8 108 (7.72%) Java Developer
9 95 (6.79%) Java Engineer
10 93 (6.65%) Senior Software Engineer
11 89 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
12 71 (5.08%) .NET Developer
13 58 (4.15%) Software Developer
14 56 (4.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 52 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
15 52 (3.72%) Lead Developer
16 43 (3.07%) Java Software Engineer
17 42 (3.00%) C# Developer
17 42 (3.00%) Principal Engineer
18 40 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 313 (22.37%) React
2 286 (20.44%) .NET
3 280 (20.01%) RESTful
4 227 (16.23%) Node.js
5 219 (15.65%) Spring
6 214 (15.30%) REST
7 197 (14.08%) Spring Boot
8 174 (12.44%) Kafka
9 109 (7.79%) AngularJS
10 93 (6.65%) gRPC
11 81 (5.79%) .NET Core
12 79 (5.65%) HTML
13 70 (5.00%) CSS
14 67 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
15 64 (4.57%) Vue
16 63 (4.50%) .NET Framework
17 57 (4.07%) ASP.NET
18 56 (4.00%) OAuth
19 54 (3.86%) Middleware
20 53 (3.79%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 404 (28.88%) Cloud Native
2 248 (17.73%) Distributed Systems
3 104 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 89 (6.36%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
6 60 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (3.22%) Over-the-Top Content
7 45 (3.22%) Video\Live Streaming
8 40 (2.86%) Algorithms
9 38 (2.72%) Data Structures
10 30 (2.14%) Distributed Architecture
11 25 (1.79%) Blockchain
11 25 (1.79%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.57%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
14 20 (1.43%) AI Agents
15 17 (1.22%) Public Cloud
16 16 (1.14%) Management Information System
16 16 (1.14%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 70 (5.00%) Linux
2 39 (2.79%) Windows
3 18 (1.29%) Unix
4 16 (1.14%) Android
5 7 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.36%) CentOS
6 5 (0.36%) Debian
6 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.071%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 687 (49.11%) CI/CD
2 555 (39.67%) Agile
3 544 (38.88%) DevOps
4 524 (37.46%) Software Engineering
5 387 (27.66%) Containerisation
6 317 (22.66%) Full-Stack Development
7 303 (21.66%) Mentoring
8 293 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
9 285 (20.37%) Event-Driven
10 280 (20.01%) Continuous Improvement
11 275 (19.66%) Test Automation
12 259 (18.51%) AI
13 229 (16.37%) Infrastructure as Code
14 185 (13.22%) Computer Science
15 169 (12.08%) Scrum
16 168 (12.01%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 156 (11.15%) Clean Code
18 155 (11.08%) Coaching
18 155 (11.08%) Technical Leadership
19 154 (11.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 451 (32.24%) Java
2 390 (27.88%) Python
3 288 (20.59%) SQL
4 264 (18.87%) JavaScript
5 249 (17.80%) C#
6 216 (15.44%) TypeScript
7 138 (9.86%) Go
8 51 (3.65%) Scala
9 44 (3.15%) PHP
10 43 (3.07%) C++
11 37 (2.64%) Bash
12 34 (2.43%) C
13 31 (2.22%) Ruby
14 22 (1.57%) PL/SQL
15 20 (1.43%) Kotlin
16 18 (1.29%) PowerShell
17 17 (1.22%) Shell Script
18 15 (1.07%) Rust
19 10 (0.71%) Groovy
20 9 (0.64%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 194 (13.87%) Degree
2 134 (9.58%) Security Cleared
3 112 (8.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 89 (6.36%) SC Cleared
5 57 (4.07%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.36%) Azure Certification
7 32 (2.29%) Master's Degree
8 28 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 22 (1.57%) CISSP
10 22 (1.57%) DV Cleared
10 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (1.00%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (0.93%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.86%) CISM
14 8 (0.57%) PhD
15 7 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
16 6 (0.43%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.43%) QA
2 31 (2.22%) GDPR
3 29 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 26 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (1.86%) PCI DSS
5 20 (1.43%) NIST
6 16 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 11 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
8 10 (0.71%) NCSC
9 9 (0.64%) GRC
10 6 (0.43%) IFRS
11 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.36%) WCAG
12 4 (0.29%) SLA
13 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
13 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.21%) SEPA
14 1 (0.071%) Solvency II
System Software
1 425 (30.38%) Docker
2 14 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.36%) Firmware
4 1 (0.071%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 443 (31.67%) Kubernetes
2 263 (18.80%) Terraform
3 83 (5.93%) Grafana
4 79 (5.65%) Ansible
5 41 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 28 (2.00%) Argo
7 19 (1.36%) Kibana
8 17 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 9 (0.64%) HP Fortify
10 7 (0.50%) Cilium
11 6 (0.43%) Puppet
12 4 (0.29%) Istio
12 4 (0.29%) Packer
12 4 (0.29%) Rancher
13 3 (0.21%) Nagios
14 2 (0.14%) MIIS
14 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 122 (8.72%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.65%) Google
3 51 (3.65%) Oracle
4 45 (3.22%) Typelevel
5 20 (1.43%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.07%) IBM
7 15 (1.07%) Red Hat
7 15 (1.07%) SAP
8 14 (1.00%) Salesforce
9 13 (0.93%) AppDynamics
10 12 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
11 10 (0.71%) Cisco
11 10 (0.71%) Databricks
12 9 (0.64%) Atlassian
12 9 (0.64%) Splunk
13 8 (0.57%) Adobe
14 7 (0.50%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.50%) Palo Alto
14 7 (0.50%) Software AG